by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 3, 2016 | In The News, Random Commentary
As I began to realize a few days ago, when I spoke of the “Baffling Clash: Pro-Life Leaders v Donald J. Trump,” some of us cannot be part of movements. As someone who believes every person’s inalienable right to life begins at conception, I’m...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 31, 2016 | In The News, Random Commentary
Trump image by Michael Vadon, used under license (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.Today’s “Morning Jolt…with Jim Geraghty” e-mail (free from National Review) contains an interesting passage on the latest Donald Trump controversy. Here it...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 22, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews
Durst, Rodrick K. Reordering the Trinity: Six Movements of God in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2005. Paperback, 369 pages. ISBN 978-0-8254-4378-7. Rodrick K. Durst’s Reordering the Trinity, in spite of an unfortunate lack of clarity in...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 8, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary
I saw a very strange documentary recently: (A)sexual (directed by Angela Tucker, Arts Engine Inc., 2011). The premise of the film, which takes for granted the contemporary belief that people have innate sexual orientations (inclinations to have sex with persons of the...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 6, 2016 | In The News, Random Commentary
Believing true what one wants to be true rather than what actually is true may be a less prevalent phenomenon among conservatives than liberals, but it is certainly not unknown among conservatives. For instance, one needn’t watch Fox New, the Fox Business...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 2, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews
Kinley, Jeff, with Raymond Damadian. Gifted Mind: The Dr. Raymond Damadian Story, Inventor of the MRI. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2015. Hard cover. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-89051-803-8. Certain aspects of Jeff Kinley and Raymond Damadian’s Gifted Mind: The Dr....
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 1, 2015 | Random Commentary
Clarey, Tim, Ph.D. Dinosaurs: Marvels of God’s Design. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2015. Hardcover, 192 pages. ISBN 978-0-89051-904-2. Bible believers, who accept Scripture’s ultimate authority in all matters on which it speaks, are appropriately...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Oct 31, 2015 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News
I just read an interesting document, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and General Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s 2001 “Report of the International Theological Dialogue between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the World Alliance...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 16, 2015 | Book (& Other) Reviews
Köstenberger, Andreas J., and Richard D. Patterson. For the Love of God’s Word: An Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2015. Hard cover, 444 pages. ISBN 978-0-8254-4336-7. Late in For Love of God’s Word (hereafter,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 17, 2015 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Montgomery, John Warwick. History, Law and Christianity. Corona, CA: NRP Books, 2014 (prior edition copyrights were 1964, 1991, and 2002). Paperback. 102+xv pages. ISBN 978-1-945500-01-5. While my philosophical and theological commitment are not...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 24, 2015 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Keathley, Kenneth D., and Mark F. Rooker. 40 Questions about Creation and Evolution. 40 Questions, series ed. Benjamin L. Merkle. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2014. Paperback, 430 pages. ISBN 978-0-8254-2941-5.Introduction: General Overview and AssessmentIn this...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 13, 2015 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Brief Notices
Decorated Chaplain Wes Modder threatened by Navy – Take Action.
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 8, 2015 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Saxton, David W. God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2015. Paperback. 145+vii pages. ISBN 978-1-60178-371-4.Contemporary rediscovery of the intellectually rich yet rigorously...